Simple enough you’d think but the goodness that God expects is of a much higher standard. God wants us to be nothing less than his goodness in the world.

Lots of people think that if you’re good that’s all God requires but God in Jesus pointed out that the goodness of believers must be greater…

Perhaps this is the most important detail.

Never, ever, lose heart.

We might fail over and over… perhaps all our lives.

What matters is that we start again and again.

Jesus taught us to love our enemies, to turn the other cheek, to go two miles instead of one, to lend without any hope of…

If we’re dishonest, unfaithful, selfish, then God can’t give his gifts to us because God’s gifts are little bits of Heaven and if God gives Heaven (or even a tiny piece of Heaven) to a dishonest or unfaithful or selfish person he’s creating hell, turning Heaven into hell.

It’s a bit…

There’s stuff that we do – being dishonest, unfaithful, selfish, spiteful, stealing, lots of stuff – that offends and hurts other people. But what we do to other people we also do to God – so this stuff also hurts and offends God.

Stuff that hurts God and other people is…

Outside Mass: Create the space and the time and use your own words.

In prayer speak to God as you would to another person, as you would to a friend using your own words. What do you speak about…